In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
Comedy freely inspired by the Gospel story of Salome's dance before King Herod, here it is the king of Prati who offers 4 provinces of his kingdom to another monarch, in exchange for the seductive dancer.
